My Texas born and bred parents were lifelong Republicans back in the days before we even had John Tower.
The reason was that my mother worked as a high level telephone operator manager in Austin in the days when LBJ set up Lady Bird to own and operate that city.
My mother said that there were only a handful operators who were allowed to connect calls from “certain parties”.
They were the ones who knew that their families would have goons show up with threats if they ever listened in on the conversations.
She retired to raise me and my siblings not long after, but the memories stayed.
She was also convinced that LBJ was in on the assassination. No proof, she just knew how his M.O.
Yes, he was our teacher.